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War has a lot to do with all kinds of things, however optimizing your country for warfare imposes a high cost on civil life and the economy. You failed to just
by VMG 13y ago
War has a lot to do with all kinds of things, however optimizing your country for warfare imposes a high cost on civil life and the economy.
You failed to justify the decision of restricting the export of cryptography and the associated costs of that.
- 001sky 13y agoThis seems a bit harsh, perhaps. Bletchley park was still in the minds of many people. It would have been conventional wisdom to keep this stuff away from "bad guys". Recall, gps was spoofed at this stage as well for civilian purposes. The other issue--although perhaps unsaid--is that ultimately this may have hastened tactics to make HW unsecure, and to collect undisclosed/zero day expoits in widespread SW and other things that could compromise a comms system that was perceived to be secure.
- TeMPOraL 13y agoSide-note: nice easter egg on Google when you search for "Bletchey park". Look at the "knowledge graph" result on the right.